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Hold on, you’re saying, apart from the prologue this doesn’t seem much of a sci-fi movie. The two start to fall in love, but Rohit is still just a big kid who will never grow up - can this ever work out? But when Sonia explains, Nisha befriends Rohit and makes Raj and his friends apologise. Rohit and Nisha get off to a bad start - he has a child’s naivete and she doesn’t understand his mental condition.
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She falls for Raj (Rajat Bedi), the magistrate’s son, a handsome, motorbike riding bully who takes delight in taunting Rohit. Into the mix comes Nisha (the gorgeous Preity Zinta) - the daughter of an old friend of the town magistrate Harbans Saxena (Prem Chopra, also in recent horror hit Dhund/ The Fog and more than 150 other films, including a 1979 version of Ali Baba) - who has moved back to Kasauli, the town which the family left when she was little. All are aged eight to ten and they’re very good indeed.)
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(Anuj Pandit, Mohit Makkad, Jai Choksi, Omkar Purohit, Hansika Motwani and Pranita Bishnoi are the child actors - credited as ‘The Super Six’. They play cricket, whizz around on their micro-scooters, and have a great time. Rohit is a young man (Rakesh Roshan’s real-life son Hrithik), a tall, geeky beanpole, but still has a mental age of about ten and hangs around with a bunch of kids (four boys, two girls). In a terrifically clever bit of editing, we move forward about 15 years or so. A doctor explains to her that this is due to brain damage sustained when she fell on her stomach from the crashing car. The widowed Sonia returns to India with her son Rohit, but by the time he is eight he has a mental age of only two and a half. Mehra loses control of the car, which crashes, though fortunately Sonia is thrown clear. Driving home with his heavily pregnant wife Sonia (the versatile Rekha, who played the witch doctor in Bhoot) beside him, they see an alien spaceship fly overhead. One night he receives a signal back, but when he tells the folks at the Space Research Centre they laugh at him. In a prologue we see Dr Sanjay Mehra (director Rakesh Roshan), an Indian scientist working in Canada, who has devoted his life to trying to contact extraterrestrials, sending out a sequence of notes from his computer. The first half is essentially a remake of Close Encounters and, when the spaceship departs, it leaves behind a little alien and we get a completely blatant remake of ET. Here it is at last, folks! An actual, genuine Bollywood sci-fi movie! There have been a very few Indian SF flicks in the past - there’s a tantalising still in the index of The BFI Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema from a 1967 film called Waham Ke Log - but I’m confident in saying that this is the first modern, effects-filled SF blockbuster from India.Īs is traditional in Bollywood (though not obligatory, as Bhoot showed) it’s three hours long and stops fairly frequently for a song and dance number. Producers: Lester John Watkins, Shammi SainiĬast: Hrithit Roshan, Preity Zinta, Rajat Bedi Writers: Sachin Bhowmick, Honey Irani, Robin Bhatt, Rakesh Roshan, Javed Siddiqui